Sincerely:Merry Christmas! Jack will be sad that he missed it, but he’ll be back on Friday

So my mom hates the color pink, and she doesn’t grow any pink flowers in her yard at all, except for some reason that I’ve never quite got to the bottom of, she makes an exception for Naked Ladies, which she has a ton of all over the yard. Anyway, it’s not meant to be a funny ha-ha joke. It’s just me paying tribute to my mom’s particular brand of eccentricity.

Also, I think Nate might’ve been a botanist before he became a bugbear. Like Matt Damon!

Elliwiny: Amaryllis is toxic, too. So as far as double meanings go it’s kind of a triple threat.